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The 80211.tmpl DocBook file was removed in commit 819bf593767c ("docs-rst:
sphinxify 802.11 documentation"), but the 80211.xml target was re-added to
the Makefile by commit 7ddedebb03b7 ("ALSA: doc: ReSTize
writing-an-alsa-driver document"), leading to a failure when building the
documentation:
*** No rule to make target 'Documentation/DocBook/80211.xml', needed by
'Documentation/DocBook/80211.aux.xml'.
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Brooks <john@fastquake.com>
Mea-culpa-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Linux 4.10-rc1
In docutils 0.13, the return type of get_column_widths method of the
Table directive has changed [1], which breaks our flat-table directive
and leads to a TypeError when trying to build the docs [2].
This patch adds support for the new return type, while keeping support
for older docutils versions too.
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/120/
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/303/
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8.x-
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The :functions: definition allows the specification of multiple
function references which prevents parsing the header file multiple
times.
Reported-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
I am getting the following warning when I build kernel 4.9-git on my
PowerBook G4 with a 32-bit PPC processor:
AS arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S:299:7: warning: "CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE" is not defined [-Wundef]
This problem is evident after commit 989cea5c14be ("kbuild: prevent
lib-ksyms.o rebuilds"); however, this change in kbuild only exposes an
error that has been in the code since 2005 when this source file was
created. That was with commit 9994a33865f4 ("powerpc: Introduce
entry_{32,64}.S, misc_{32,64}.S, systbl.S").
The offending line does not make a lot of sense. This error does not
seem to cause any errors in the executable, thus I am not recommending
that it be applied to any stable versions.
Thanks to Nicholas Piggin for suggesting this solution.
Fixes: 9994a33865f4 ("powerpc: Introduce entry_{32,64}.S, misc_{32,64}.S, systbl.S")
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The previous description have been misleading and partially incorrect.
Reported-by: Harsh Jain <harshjain.prof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The timer type simplifications caused a new gcc warning:
drivers/base/power/domain.c: In function ‘genpd_runtime_suspend’:
drivers/base/power/domain.c:562:14: warning: ‘time_start’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
elapsed_ns = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(ktime_get(), time_start));
despite the actual use of "time_start" not having changed in any way.
It appears that simply changing the type of ktime_t from a union to a
plain scalar type made gcc check the use.
The variable wasn't actually used uninitialized, but gcc apparently
failed to notice that the conditional around the use was exactly the
same as the conditional around the initialization of that variable.
Add an unnecessary initialization just to shut up the compiler.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the documentation reference to crypto_alloc_ablkcipher as the API
function call was removed.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull timer type cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"This series does a tree wide cleanup of types related to
timers/timekeeping.
- Get rid of cycles_t and use a plain u64. The type is not really
helpful and caused more confusion than clarity
- Get rid of the ktime union. The union has become useless as we use
the scalar nanoseconds storage unconditionally now. The 32bit
timespec alike storage got removed due to the Y2038 limitations
some time ago.
That leaves the odd union access around for no reason. Clean it up.
Both changes have been done with coccinelle and a small amount of
manual mopping up"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
ktime: Get rid of ktime_equal()
ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage
ktime: Get rid of the union
clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t
Add the KPP API documentation to the kernel crypto API Sphinx
documentation. This addition includes the documentation of the
ECDH and DH helpers which are needed to create the approrpiate input
data for the crypto_kpp_set_secret function.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull SMP hotplug notifier removal from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final cleanup of the hotplug notifier infrastructure. The
series has been reintgrated in the last two days because there came a
new driver using the old infrastructure via the SCSI tree.
Summary:
- convert the last leftover drivers utilizing notifiers
- fixup for a completely broken hotplug user
- prevent setup of already used states
- removal of the notifiers
- treewide cleanup of hotplug state names
- consolidation of state space
There is a sphinx based documentation pending, but that needs review
from the documentation folks"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/armada-xp: Consolidate hotplug state space
irqchip/gic: Consolidate hotplug state space
coresight/etm3/4x: Consolidate hotplug state space
cpu/hotplug: Cleanup state names
cpu/hotplug: Remove obsolete cpu hotplug register/unregister functions
staging/lustre/libcfs: Convert to hotplug state machine
scsi/bnx2i: Convert to hotplug state machine
scsi/bnx2fc: Convert to hotplug state machine
cpu/hotplug: Prevent overwriting of callbacks
x86/msr: Remove bogus cleanup from the error path
bus: arm-ccn: Prevent hotplug callback leak
perf/x86/intel/cstate: Prevent hotplug callback leak
ARM/imx/mmcd: Fix broken cpu hotplug handling
scsi: qedi: Convert to hotplug state machine
No point in going through loops and hoops instead of just comparing the
values.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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